Denial
I’ve come across it more and more as I surf through the Internet and, sadly, at my own front door too: people who have their mind set on one thing and cannot see anything else even if it is connected. Having someone try and tell me how I should run my life because a man [...]
Web 2.0 Fails.
It’s a wonderful idea: a complete world of web sites linking one to another in a seamless network, working together to make the Internet an experience for all, to bring people together and create a global village without boundaries, without borders. But it is just that, simply an idea. Although web 2.0 has been ‘in [...]
Finding A Good Argument
We’re going to hear much much more about it before things calm down and a few of those more narrow-minded people out there move on to other things. It’s in the news again, and will continue to be: people and small communities turning against coloreds, against LGBT, against whatever is different. It’s impossible to get [...]
Fighting On!
Strange, but no matter where you happen to go on the Internet, you’re going to get hit by spam, by pop-up and pop-under advertising, but attempts to infect your computer through a virus. Two examples I’ve come across recently. The first is on Instagram which, fortunately, is not such a big thing. The likelihood of [...]
Hidden Corners.
Yesterday I had a little bit of time on my hands, so I went for a walk around one of the smallest areas within Bremen: Schnoor. This is a sort of artists’ quarter although, I have discovered, less so than it once was. Apparently in the Sixties – mythical times! – there were far more [...]
Hiding Criticism.
Sometimes I get fed up, when I visit a news site and want to see what’s going on, wit the mess of comments unrelated to the subject matter, which follow. I don’t have a problem with people making comments, even welcome it, but some form of moderation? When ten or twenty comments out of several [...]
Small Villages.
This is what makes the area so interesting: small villages between low hills, fields, railway lines and roads. I could spend hours wandering around them just exploring if, that is, they were big enough for one person to spend hours in! Uenzen in Lower Saxony (Mittelweser Region) Photo: Viktoria Michaelis. Many of these villages are [...]
The Week Ahead.
Plenty of things planned for this week, since I am now officially on vacation and can enjoy not just the promised weather but also a chance to travel around some of the villages and towns in this beautiful area. But I’m not going too far away from home, since I’m the only one in our [...]
A Protest Action
I’ve just changed my computer background image. It is a small protest and will probably have no effect on the rest of the world or the business interests of one particular company whatsoever, but it makes me feel – if temporarily – good inside. You see, I’ve always thought of them as being a children’s [...]
Summer?
I’m not too sure what’s happened to this year, it seems, quite literally, to be flowing down a storm drain. Maybe it’s just my warped imagination, but wasn’t the weather better in ‘olden times’? Or is that just a question retirees ask? But I most certainly think that the weather last year was considerably better [...]
Hollywood Deficit
I’m starting to think that Hollywood has run out of ideas. It’s not just this strange policy of remaking perfectly good foreign films two or three years after their original release, which seems almost the height of pointlessness to me, but also their insistence on re-filming older films again. I read in Huff Post Style [...]
Project Mittelweser
If you are one of the few people who follows me on either Twitter or Instagram you might have noticed that I was in the small farming village of Sonnenborstel the other day. Two reasons: an invitation to eat somewhere else for a change with my Lover, out of the way in peace and quiet, [...]
Wishlist Revisited
It’s been a week since I published my post Wish List. You will recall that it was a very short list, nothing special, nothing out of this world but, all the same, perhaps a little bit unusual. I didn’t wish for a wardrobe filled with the newest and latest fashions, or endless riches, or shoes [...]
The Search for Boobies
What’s the best subject to write about in order to get more visitors? Some of my older subjects are coming back again, not so much to haunt me, more as reminders of the subjects I used to cover considerably more than I do now. The main search word at the moment? Boobies. Photo Source: Tumblr. [...]
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